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At Universidade Aberta, Portugal’s unique distance learning
university, undergraduate degrees include foreign language courses
in German, Spanish, French and English (A1 – C1). These are
taught entirely online through a learning platform (Moodle) which
includes tools and resources teachers may use in their classes. In
our experience of e-learning, we have been engaged in exploring
how to effectively teach language skills online resorting to the latest
technology at hand. Since the onset of Covid, however, we have
been faced with an even greater challenge: to reach further in our
standards of innovation and reference in the field of distance and
online learning in Portugal, and that means working collaboratively
to develop new and creative methodologies that will help students
to acquire, not only the necessary language skills, but also
communicative and collaborative competences in a world
undergoing many transformations.
In this paper we focus on the use of texts in language teaching
online and on how, because of Covid, the teaching-learning process
has had to further reinvent itself, even at a University already
designed to teach at a distance. To illustrate our ideas, we refer to
examples of texts taught in the four languages, on the tools and
resources used to create learning materials, their application in the
foreign language virtual classroom and on the importance of using
texts in language teaching.
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Keywords
e-Learning Foreign languages Language skills Learning resources Digital tools Teaching with texts
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Publisher
GIRES Press